Somewhat different conditons this Saturday A.M. Quick overview - Nick Hall-Patch, one of the team members at the weekend Grayland WA team gave me the task of watching conditions from Southern Vancouver Island for the sake of comparison. Vancouver Island is at the South west coast of British Columbia, some 200 miles north of the Grayland, Washington receiving site.
This mornings observations do not contain any formal loggings, just anecdotal observations on overall band conditions. >From 1330UTC on, there was fair audio on the Japanese syncros on 747, 774, and 828Khz, 774 leading the pack in signal strength. The levels were slightly lower than yesterday, overall, but there were unusual peaks to S9 on the three at 1350UTC. Audio appeared on 738Khz over the duration and may have been Korean or Chinese. Korea on 972khz was fairly steady. There were a couple of huge signals getting bombarded by side-band splash on frequencies like 873 and 1053khz (adjacent to locals 900 and 1070) I tuned out about 1415, some 15 minutes prior to sunrise. By this time, the big JJ stations on 747, 774 and 828 had switched to what sounded like Italian... this was much more audible on 774. I have been medium-waving DXing since 1971 and what alarms me the most about the 'band' is the appalling lack of broadcast standards or enforcement of broadcast standards in Canada and stateside. Overmodulation, power-supply hum, off frequency operation and just plain crappy audio on many stations seems to be at epidemic levels. The only saving grace is the departure from AM to FM by many North American broadcasters. In Victoria, B.C. Canada, I am Colin Newell Receivers: Kenwood R2000, Radio Shack DX150B, DX440 Sony 7600G, Yacht-Boy 400PE Antennas: 3 and 4 foot Oak frame loops w/ ferrite matching transformers ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
